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Launch of Apollo 11 - 50th Anniversary!
Posted on 7/16/19 at 11:06 am
Posted on 7/16/19 at 11:06 am
Today is a momentous day in history! When all the history books have been written, millennia from now... this achievement will have passed the test of time.
Less than a decade after John F. Kennedy set the goal, thousands of engineers, scientists, fabricators, electricians, seamstresses, and other workers in Houston, New Orleans, Huntsville, the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Titusville, Bethpage NY, Downey CA and numerous other locations, who had combined their mastery of orbital physics, rocketry, spacecraft design, aerospace, aluminum welding, sewing, computer design/programming and dozens of other disciplines... witnessed the beginning of a journey to achieve a goal dreamed about for thousands of years.
Here's to the humans who dreamed about it, the ones who made it happen, and the three who climbed into that command module at Cape Canaveral/Kennedy fifty years ago today!!
Less than a decade after John F. Kennedy set the goal, thousands of engineers, scientists, fabricators, electricians, seamstresses, and other workers in Houston, New Orleans, Huntsville, the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Titusville, Bethpage NY, Downey CA and numerous other locations, who had combined their mastery of orbital physics, rocketry, spacecraft design, aerospace, aluminum welding, sewing, computer design/programming and dozens of other disciplines... witnessed the beginning of a journey to achieve a goal dreamed about for thousands of years.
Here's to the humans who dreamed about it, the ones who made it happen, and the three who climbed into that command module at Cape Canaveral/Kennedy fifty years ago today!!
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Posted on 7/16/19 at 11:06 am to JPinLondon
Posted on 7/16/19 at 11:09 am to JPinLondon
I would have killed to have seen a Saturn V launch.
Back in the day, they would test all five engines at the same time as a cluster out at Stennis. My old man said you could hear them all the way in Abita Springs, 40 miles away, and it would rattle the windows.
That’s some frickin’ power there.
Back in the day, they would test all five engines at the same time as a cluster out at Stennis. My old man said you could hear them all the way in Abita Springs, 40 miles away, and it would rattle the windows.
That’s some frickin’ power there.
This post was edited on 7/16/19 at 11:10 am
Posted on 7/16/19 at 11:09 am to JPinLondon
Could you imagine sitting on the top of that thing when it took off... 
Posted on 7/16/19 at 11:11 am to JPinLondon
Take a look at those pictures that has some pixels in them and then consider for a fact that those cameras were as good as it gets back then.
Amazing how far picture quality in our cameras has come.
This is portrait mode on the iPhone.
Amazing how far picture quality in our cameras has come.
This is portrait mode on the iPhone.
Posted on 7/16/19 at 11:13 am to TheFonz
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That’s some frickin’ power there.
I cannot imagine!
Liftoff Thrust:
7,891,000 lbf (35,100 kN) sea level
Posted on 7/16/19 at 11:16 am to JPinLondon
I was a little kid, and watched the landing on television. I’ll never forget the amazement of looking up at the moon that night with my dad at the wonder that men were actually walking on it as I looked up at it. What an unbelievable achievement for human beings, and America in specific.
Posted on 7/16/19 at 11:27 am to Mike da Tigah
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I was a little kid, and watched the landing on television. I’ll never forget the amazement of looking up at the moon that night with my dad at the wonder that men were actually walking on it as I looked up at it. What an unbelievable achievement for human beings, and America in specific.
How old? I love asking people about that day, the landing day. It was a summertime Sunday, so no school the next day. Assuming most kids were allowed to stay up late.
WHat can you recall about the day?
Posted on 7/16/19 at 11:40 am to JPinLondon
quote:I was 4, I do remember sitting on my gandparents' porch looking at the moon, trying to see the astronauts.
WHat can you recall about the day?
Posted on 7/16/19 at 11:44 am to choupiquesushi
You should’ve just went to the studio where they were filming.
Posted on 7/16/19 at 11:47 am to JPinLondon
Lots of activities up here in HSV for the anni.
Posted on 7/16/19 at 11:47 am to BabyTac
Posted on 7/16/19 at 11:51 am to TheFonz
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Back in the day, they would test all five engines at the same time as a cluster out at Stennis. My old man said you could hear them all the way in Abita Springs, 40 miles away, and it would rattle the windows.
I remember this well. I was 10 years old, sitting on my grandmothers front porch in Pearl River, LA. That low long rumble coming over the pines from a distance was something else. You could just envision the power.
Posted on 7/16/19 at 12:04 pm to JPinLondon
Worked at the MTF( Mississippi Test Facility) and witnessed tests of the first and second stage os the Saturn 5. Amazing power- Sitting in the review stands which were a few miles away , your pants leg would flutter as the first stage would fire off and during the few minutes of the test- something I will never forget.
Posted on 7/16/19 at 12:04 pm to greenwave
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Lots of activities up here in HSV for the anni.
Tell us a few. Is Wernher von Braun considered to be the greatest resident of Huntsville of all time?
A friend at JSC has been going to some of the "talks" at the Saturn V display in Rocket Park over the last couple weeks. Most were related to Apollo 11.
Posted on 7/16/19 at 12:30 pm to JPinLondon
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
Posted on 7/16/19 at 12:33 pm to Bestbank Tiger
We’re Go on the 1202!
Posted on 7/16/19 at 12:48 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
Speech was at Rice Stadium. A few sentences earlier he asked "Why does Rice play Texas?"
This country could learn a lot from JFK and that quote. A modern democrat would find that quote reprehensible.
Posted on 7/16/19 at 12:51 pm to BabyTac
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You should’ve just went to the studio where they were filming
LOL!!!
Posted on 7/16/19 at 1:01 pm to JPinLondon
It never happened
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